> It may be wonderful if we could, but at the moment, every dollar spent on fusion is a dollar not spent on building more solar panels and wind turbines. That'

> It may be wonderful if we could, but at the moment, every dollar spent on fusion is a dollar not spent on building more solar panels and wind turbines. That's not how this works. The money that goes to research is very far removed from the money that goes towards utilities' capital investments. To say nothing of the politics involved. Regardless, we stand to gain more than just a possible energy source from this research.